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  • Diameter (Km) 4,879 km.
  • Average Distance from the sun (AU): 0.39
  • Time of 1 rotation: 58.7
  • Time for 1 revolution: 88 days

The Facts!

*Smallest planet in our solar system
*Mercury can change temp. from really hot to really cold
*Mercury moves from very close to far away from the sun in its orbit
*There are traces of hydrogen and helium in the atmosphere

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Uranus.

  • Average distance from the sun: 9.58
  • Time for one rotation (day): 10.7 hours.
  • Time for 1 revolution (year): 83.7 years.
  • Diameter (Km): 51,118 km.

The Facts!

*It ws the first to be discovered by the use of a modern telescope.
*3rd largest in our solar system
*It absords the light from the sun which gives it the blue-green color.
*Uranus is 2.5 times farther from the sun than saturn.

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Comets.

  • Comets are rocks that burn up as they hit the atmosphere
  • They spin around the sun and then get flung back outwards
  • A comet's orbit around the sun are long narrow ellipses
  • They have names like Halley's comet.
  • Comets are often called dirty snowballs.



Black Hole.

  • It's gravity is so srtong that not even light can escape.
  • A black hole is a region of the universe so dense it traps stuff in there forever!
  • Black holes are made when a star collapses in on it's self
  • Artist idea of a black hole with gas and dust swirling rapidly around it.
  • Space time could bend around objects,so a black hole which is much more massive would make a hole in space time.